HP Cisco MDS 9020 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual page 484

About VSANs
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
Fabric-related configurations in one VSAN do not affect the associated traffic in another VSAN.
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Events causing traffic disruptions in one VSAN are contained within that VSAN and are not
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propagated to other VSANs.
The switch icons shown in both
switch in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.
Figure 19-1
switches and the attached devices is independent of their segmentation into logical VSANs. No
communication between VSANs is possible. Within each VSAN, all members can talk to one another.
Figure 19-1
Switch 1
Switch 2
Switch 3
Figure 19-2
2 (dashed) and VSAN 7 (solid). VSAN 2 includes hosts H1 and H2, application servers AS2 and AS3,
and storage arrays SA1 and SA4. VSAN 7 connects H3, AS1, SA2, and SA3.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
19-2
Figure 19-1
shows a fabric with three switches, one on each floor. The geographic location of the
Logical VSAN Segmentation
Engineering Marketing
VSAN VSAN
shows a physical Fibre Channel switching infrastructure with two defined VSANs: VSAN
Chapter 19
and Figure 19-2 indicate that these features apply to any
Accounting
VSAN
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Configuring and Managing VSANs
Floor 3
Floor 2
Floor 1